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Ludwig M. Auer

emeritus neurosurgeon, neuroscientist
and author on political philosophy and ethics

List of Projects

If you wish to use material from the slide presentations of the projects available in detail, please cite my work as follows:

For Project MEDNET: NEURO-EXPERT – A Database for Clinical Neurosciences, Presentation at the AANS – Meeting 1996, Minneapolis, April 27 – May 2 1996

For Project AIDER: E-Health & Tele-Medicine concept in center of Excellence for Telemedicine in Austria. Presentation at the EHTEL-TWG-2-Meeting, Trieste, September 18, 2001

For Project ROBOSCOPE: Robots for Neurosurgery. Auer LM. In: Minimally Invasive Techniques for Neurosurgery. Current Status and Future Perspectives, eds.: D.H. Hellwig, B.L. Bauer, Springer Verlag 1998, pp 243 – 49

For Project AIRBUS: Telemedicine, Presentation at the Cornell-Postgraduate Course, Salzburg, July 28, 1999

RESEARCH GRANTS SUPPORTED BY AUSTRIAN RESEARCH – FOUNDATIONS:

PROJECTS FUNDED BY “Austrian Science Fund”
(grants at ~ €30,000 to €75,000)

  • – No.2989: Intravital microscopy for animal experimentation
  • – No.3547: same as above
  • – No.4953: Surgical treatment of cerebral ischemia
  • – No.5115: Regulation of cerebral blood volume
  • – No.5241: Neurophysiologic parameters during cerebral revascularization
  • – No.5502: Measurement of blood flow in single pial vessels by video techniques
  • – No.1926: Blood flow velocity in small superficial blood vessels

PROJECTS WITH THE AUSTRIAN DEPARTMENT OF SCIENCE AND RESEARCH (State contract):
(grants between ~ €15,000 and €150,000)

  • Medical-bibliographical database (Cooperation with the Technical University of Graz)
  • Computer-assisted medical database (Cooperation with the Radiology Department Graz)
  • Digital image processing for the development of a first PACS system in a clinical environment (Cooperative project between Siemens, State of Austria, University of Graz)
  • Patient data management system for neurosurgery (Cooperation with the Technical University of Graz)
  • Socio-economic and structural management of clinical medicine (cooperation project with the Institute of Industrial Economics of the University of Graz, funded by the Styrian Government).

PROJECTS FUNDED BY “Anniversary Fund of the Austrian National Bank”
(funded at ~ €35,000 each)

  • Project 1926 “Intravitalmikroskopisch-videotechnische Registrierung der Blutströmungsgeschwindigkeit in kleinen oberflächlichen Hirngefäßen der Katze” (Video-technical intravital microscopy for measurement of blood velocity in pial vessels of the cat)
  • Project 8321 “Hirngewebssegmentierung mit Ultraschallbildgebung” (Segmentation of ultrasound images of the brain)

PROJECTS FUNDED BY “Austrian Commercial Economy Fund”

  • 2000 – Development of WWW-based database and search engine for congress abstracts in medicine (~€150,000)
  • 2001 – Development of a PC-based system for surgical simulation using virtual endoscopy and a robotic manipulator arm. (~€500,000)

Several projects funded by the County and the City of Salzburg between 1999 and 2001 (between €7,000 and €150,000)

EU-FUNDED R&D PROJECTS

  • 1998-2000 Brain-fMRI Functional MRI for Planning Procedures in Minimally Invasive Neurosurgery, 4th framework, BIO MED II, no.PL 950870
  • 1998-2000 ROBOSCOPE Integration Platform for Ultrasound Image-Guided, Robot-Assisted Minimally Invasive Neurosurgery (~€3,400,000) 4th framework, Telematics, no.4018
  • 2001-2004 AIDER Accident Information and Driver Emergency Rescue System (€4,883,146) 5th framework, IST, no.28058

All EC-funded projects are co-funded by a federal grant in Austria at ~€70,000

INDUSTRY-FUNDED R&D PROJECTS

  • 2002-2003 FLIGHT-MD Telemedicine equipment and strategies for civil aviation Sponsored by AIRBUS

MAJOR PROJECTS SINCE THE YEAR 1995 (for further project activity please see http://www.ism-austria.at)

  • 1995-2000 Virtual neuro-endoscopy and fiber tracing from MRI studies,
  • 1997-2002 WWW-based medical library database for digital textbooks and abstracts (in case of interest in a detailed description of projects MMD and Web Science Libraries, texts are available in digital format)
  • 2000-2002 Development of a center of excellence for telemedicine (80-120 co-workers)
  • 2001-2004 Development of a telemedical rescue system for the car accident scenario (vital parameter sensor data transmission, estimation of injury severity) in collaboration with the car industry (Daimler Chrysler, FIAT).
  • 2002-2003 Development of an air-to-ground telemedicine service for civil aviation.
  • 2002-2004 Sensory and logistic systems for telemedical management of individuals in risk scenarios.

Projects in various stages of planning and preparation

  • MEDNET Multicenter Medical Patient Data Management via an Intranet
  • M-AGENTS Multi-agent supported Preprint Server
  • MIM Medical information management using software agents
  • LAW & TELEMEDICINE Particular legal aspects of telemedicine
  • A X O N Mapping of cerebral fiber tracts for connectivity analysis and advanced neuronavigation in diagnosis and treatment
  • M R – ‘B I O P S Y’, (BRAINCONSULT) European Multimodality Database of Brain Tumors for Non-invasive Differential Diagnosis and Therapy Control
  • DiabData Database Management System for Healthcare Quality Programs in Diabetology
  • TELE-DIAGNOST Estimation of arterial blood pressure from the photoplethysmographic signal.